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If we cannot sing of faith and triumph, we will sing our despair. We will be that kind of bird. There are day owls, and there arenight owls, and each is beautiful and even musical while about its business.

Henry David Thoreau
Beautiful, Faith, Bird
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.177, Jazzybee Verlag
If we cannot sing of faith and triumph, we will sing our despair. We will be that kind of bird. There are day owls, and there arenight owls, and each is beautiful and even musical while about its business.